Wednesday, April 23, 2014

I'm having a rough year baseball-wise. The Red Sox have been mediocre, my fantasy team is off to a crappy start, and I've generally been doing rather poorly with pulling Red Sox from packs. It has also been strangely difficult to complete my team sets. I still have a number of Topps and Heritage needs. Now add Gypsy Queen to the list. I bought a blaster and it resulted in just two cards:

1. 2014 Topps Gypsy Queen Mini Pedro Martinez. He will be eligible for the Hall next year. He should get in.

2. 2014 Topps Gypsy Queen Jon Lester. Horrible night last night against the Yankees. They need to pull it together.

Friday, April 18, 2014

I traded an Astros Roger Clemens insert for two oddball Rockets with the Red Sox:

1. 1987 Star Promo Roger Clemens. It's blank on the back. I have one similar to this in my Alomar collection. The title is "The Artful Roger".

2. 1991 Stadium Club Charter Member Roger Clemens. I am not sure how I missed out on this card for so many years. I had the Ellis Burks and Jeff Reardon from the same set, and a Sandy Alomar Jr. as well. I had no idea there was a Clemens.

Thursday, April 10, 2014

I have not been doing too well with knocking stuff off of my wantlist lately. Coupled with the fact that I have added a bunch of cards from recent releases to the wantlist means that it is actually growing rather than shrinking. Not the way I prefer things to go. So I picked up a few things with a couple of trades and a couple of buys off of Ebay.

1. 2014 Donruss Elite Dominator Curt Schilling. Excellent looking card that actually manages to hide the lack of MLB license rather well. Schilling should be in the Hall of Fame.

7. 1993 Upper Deck Season Highlights Jeff Reardon. I have always liked closers. Reardon was the first Red Sox closer I was aware of when I started watching baseball. I remember him breaking Rollie Fingers's saves record in 1992. He was traded not long after that and Lee Smith pretty much immediately broke his record.

8. 2014 Topps Opening Day Jonny Gomes. I love this shot. Gomes may be out of a job soon though with the emergence of Jackie Bradley Jr., the impressive hitting of Grady Sizemore, and Shane Victorino's return from the DL.

9. 2014 Topps 1989 Mini Ted Williams.

10. 2014 Topps Opening Day Mascots Wally the Green Monster. I am not a big fan of mascot cards and do not go out of my way to get them. If I get them in a trade or pack, that is fine.

11. 2014 Topps Opening Day Dustin Pedroia. Must have been an exciting play.

12. 2012 Topps Chrome Blue Refractor Jon Lester.

13. 2014 Topps Opening Day Stars David Ortiz. I love these 3D cards.

14. 2011 Finest Refractor Clay Buchholz.

15. 2010 Topps Chrome Xfractor John Lackey. He looks as good as he did last year. Good, because he's on my fantasy team.

Finally, I picked up another blaster of Heritage, trying to pick up the last several Red Sox I needed. Not much got accomplished. If anyone has any Red Sox heritage they want to get rid of, let me know.

16. 2014 Topps Heritage Will Middlebrooks.

17. 2014 Topps Heritage Will Middlebrooks/Allen Craig WS. Not the World Series card I wanted the most. Not even sure you can really call it a Red Sox card, but Middlebrooks is just as important in the shot as Craig, so I will give it a pass.

8. 1994 Topps Gold Scott Fletcher. A 5-WAR player in 1993, believe it or not.

9. 1994 Topps Gold Ken Ryan.

10. 1995 Topps Otis Nixon.

11. 1995 Topps Frank Rodriguez.

12. 1995 Topps Aaron Sele.

13. 1995 Topps Roger Clemens. Just filling in some gaps.

14. 2009 Topps Toppstown Kevin Youkilis.

15. 2009 Upper Deck Icons Jonathan Papelbon.

And the first card in this scan is from Johnny too:

16. 2009 O-Pee-Chee Walk-Off Winners J.D. Drew. Celebrating the win in Game 5 of the ALCS in 2008 in which Boston mounted a huge comeback.

Thanks Johnny!

17. 2012 Topps Chrome Blue Refractor Mike Aviles. Acquired in a trade with some Alomar stuff from the other blog.

Up next is a new vintage package from one of my favorite trading partners, Mark Hoyle:

18. 1970 Fleer Laughlin World Series Babe Ruth. Most of these cards did not feature any recognizable players, but boy this one did. Just an awesome card celebrating Ruth's pitching dominance in the World Series.

19. 1975 Topps Mini Rogelio Moret. Mark always throws a bunch of these in. Not that I mind, I did not have any prior to his packages.

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